Needle.



PATENTBD MAY 5, 1903.

A. W. STIMSON.

NEEDLE.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 2s. 1902.

N0 MODEL.

/NVENTOR WITNESSES Attorney TH: mms versus co.. maremma., wAsNmGron. D.c.

UNITED STATES Patented. May 5, 1903;

-PATENT FEICE.

NEEDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,020, dated May5,:1903. Application filed November 2 6, 190.2. Serial No.132,93'7. (Nomodel.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ANNIE W. STIMsoN, of Los Angeles, in the county ofLos Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Needles; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

My invention relates to an improvement in needles, and more particularlyto such as are employed for feeding a ribbon or tape through beading, apocket, or a series of pockets, the object of the invention being to soconstruct a needle of the class above mentioned as to facilitate theready attachment of ribbon thereto and prevent the engagement orentanglement of the fastening means with the beading or pockets throughwhich the ribbon is to be fed.

A further object is to provide a ribbon-needle which shall be simple inconstruction,

cheap to manufacture, easy to manipulate,V

and which shall eifectually perform all the functions required of such aneedle. A

With these objects in viewvmy invention consists in certain novelfeatures of construction and combinations of parts, as will behereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a view of theneedle-blank. Fig. 2 is a view of same bent into shape ready for use.Fig. 3 is a view in section. Fig. 4 is a view of a piece of beading inwhich the ribbon and needle are inserted, and Fig. 5 is a section of theblank on line a; of Fig. l.

l represents the blank, constructed of any suitable material, preferablyof metal, from which the needle is formed. To form the needle from theblank, the latter is bent at 3 to form end section v 2, while endsection 5 is formed by bending the blank at 6, the central section 4constitutingthe body of the needle. End section 2 is provided with apointed end for piercing the ribbon or tape to be threaded and ispreferably made tapering from end to end, so as to permit of its entirepassage through theY body portion Yof the narrowest widths of ribbon ortape'. End section 5 is of sufficient length to overlap the pointed endof section 2 and prevent the latter from engaging the material while theribbon or tape is being threaded through the same. Central section 4 andend section 5 are so shaped With respect to one another that when thelatter is bent to its normalv position its outer edges aline with thecorresponding outer edges of the former and the needle will haveataper'- ing shape.

As previously stated, end section 5 is bent at the point 6, which latterbecomes the point of the needle, and owing to its rounded form itsinsertion through the fabric is rendered exceedingly easy and all dangerof injury thereto by hooking into the material, as would be the casewere the point made of a single thickness of material, is avoided.

The side edges of the entire needle are rounded to prevent its cuttingthe lace or other material.

The device described is exceedingly simple in construction, cheap tomanufacture, and is capable of being quickly attached to the end of apiece of ribbon, tape, or the like, it simply being necessary to movesection 5 outwardly a distance sufficient to permit section 2 to bepassed through the end of the material to be threaded, after whichsections 2 and 5 are returned to their normal positions and the needleis then ready for use, with section 5 overlapping the pointed section 2and effectually preventing the latter from in any way engaging the laceor other material through which the ribbon or tape is being threaded.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A tape or ribbon needle, made in a single piece, and comprising threeintegral members, one of which is pointed, and one of said membersoverlapping the end ,of the pointed member.

2. A tape or ribbon needle, comprising a central member and two endmembers disposed upon the central member, one of said end members beingpointed and projecting speoieation' in the presence of two subscribnnderthe other end member. ing Witnesses.

3. A tape or ribbon needle consisting of a single flat strip having oneend pointed, said ANNIE W STIMSON' 5 strip bent upon itself at twopoints and the Witnesses:

free ends overlapping. CHARLES H. HUMPHREYS,

RICHARD J. DILLoN.

In testimony whereof I have signed this

